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Quotes About Wrong

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.
~ Rick Santorum
A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.
~ Phil Neville
The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all, before I had talked to anyone, before I get out of bed. I'm always the bad person.
~ Tonya Harding
When one talks about six coaches in four seasons something's wrong, something bad's going on.
~ Roberto Carlos
If that's too mythical a tone consider those who conform and know something's wrong and need a zany few who won't obey.
~ Richard Hugo
Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong—then guide me on the road to eternal life.
~ Richard L. Mabry
Investigate my life, O God . . . See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong.
~ Richard L. Mabry
Life turned out to be very different from theory. But they would not admit they were wrong: whenever things did not turn out as desired, they did not compromise but instead intensified the violence. To admit to being wrong would threaten to unravel the whole theoretical foundation of their regime, since it claimed to be scientifically correct in all its parts.
~ Richard Pipes
The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it's a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.
~ Richard Siken
You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.
~ Richard Siken
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
~ Richard Wilbur
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
~ Richard Wright
You will not! It's wrong." "What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?
~ Richelle Mead
I think you is barking up the wrong dog.
~ Roald Dahl
It's fizzing the wrong way!
~ Roald Dahl
Non è con un torto che dobbiamo far valere il nostro diritto. Se no è un diritto storto
~ Roald Dahl
It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.
~ Robbie Ross
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You're spoiled." "I intend to be. Jake, much of what is wrong with this world would be righted if the customer screamed every time he feels cheated.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, One more devils'-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
~ Robert Browning
Lucy said, "The law is an adversarial contest that defines justice as staying within the rules and seeing the game to its conclusion. Justice is reaching a conclusion. It has very little to do with right and wrong. The law gives us order. Only men and women can give us what you want to call justice.
~ Robert Crais
I put the Corvette in its spot in the parking garage and rode up in the elevator and went into my office and closed the door. There was a message on my answering machine from someone looking for Bob, but that was probably a wrong number. Or maybe it wasn't a wrong number. Maybe I was in the wrong office. Maybe I was in the wrong life.
~ Robert Crais
Pike knew something was wrong. The tension in Cole's body was as obvious as a corpse hanging from the ceiling. Cole was pretending to be fine for the girl.
~ Robert Crais
It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.
~ Robert Ferrigno